…This was a miracle or miracle-like moment. Here we are in the sixth millennium of Creation, almost 4 millennia after Avraham lived and sired 8 sons, and here was the seed of Ishmael sounding unchanged: the bitter and angry claim to the land whose ownership the Torah miSinai could not be clearer about. Ishmael the first-born lost his right to this land by his behavior and never really got over it. What I heard this morning was the whining of these Arabs of the injustice done to them by Israel planning to build on E1 because it is rightfully the property of the Ancient Palestinian people – and never mind this is an absolute fantasy cooked up by these larcenous Arabs to justify claiming what rightfully belongs to the children of Israel, not Ishmael, and not only according to the Bible but common law common among the nations of this world… |